This failure is due to a bug, which I just filed against 
JuliaDoc: https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaDoc/issues/13

I'm not sure that fixing this alone will lead to `make doctest` passing, 
however.  Would it make sense to enable `make doctest` as part of the 
Travis build process for julia?

On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 5:13:08 PM UTC-7, Harry B wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I did a fresh build of julia from master/latest source and I get tons of 
> errors for "make doctest" (all errors are identical though)
>
> I am attempting to run "make doctest" from the doc/ subdirectory. My goal 
> is to make sure my edits and corrections pass the doctest
>
> I have tried two ways  (1) Installing julia from source with make at the 
> top level (and then make install)
>                                     (2) make doctest having the path 
> pointing to a nightly snapshot of Julia from a few days ago.
>
> "make doctest" runs now, but I get an error for almost all doctest 
> entries. All errors are of the form "ERROR: UndefVarError: @raw_str not 
> defined"
>
> File "manual/constructors.rst", line 538, in default
> Failed example:
>     (1 + 2im)//(1 - 2im)
> Expected:
>     -3//5 + 4//5*im
> Got:
>     ERROR: UndefVarError: @raw_str not defined
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Harry
>
>

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